With the release 0.4.1 toaster - first R package designed and developed for Aster - received its latest update that includes comprehensive support for kmeans clustering, new utility function to compute NULLs, and support for the latest version of ggplot2 (2.0.0). It's available from CRAN or by running this in R:

install.packages("toaster")

If you didn't follow the package's timeline before 0.4.1 then here is a high-level review of toaster features:

summary table statistics with function getTableSummary;

quick access to standard statistics and their visualizations with showData;

family of compute functions to perform computations, processing and aggregations on "big data" in-database and return results to R;

family of create functions to quickly turn results of compute's into effective visualizations;

the following in-database functionality is available via compute functions: